Re: libidn2 upload

[Simon Josefsson]

Den Mon, 26 Dec 2016 12:06:30 +0100
skrev Re: libidn2 upload:

> On Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2016 21:51:46 CET Tim Rühsen wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2016 09:49:18 CET Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > Hi Tim!
> > > 
> > > Seasonal greetings :-)
> > > 
> > > Are you okay with lowering the gettext dependency from 0.19.8 to
> > > 0.19.3?  Otherwise I can't build it on my debian lenny machine.
> > 
> > Of course I can do that, just mentioning that Lenny isn't supported
> > any more. But I know, sometimes it is not possible to upgrade to
> > Wheezy... Repo updated.
> 
> I installed Lenny with backports... no chance to build anything. All
> the auto* tools are too old, libunistring packages do not exist,
> gettext too old, ...

Sorry, I meant wheezy!

> We should aim to get libidn2 into unstable/testing and hopefully into
> the next stable Debian release. The prerequisites likely work on
> older systems as well, but not on ancient ones as Lenny. Of course,
> patches are welcome.

Targetting testing would be awesome!  We can compromise on other things
for that goal, I think.

/Simon

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